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Find-a-med is/was a location-based app that allowed users to find the closest health and medical centres to them, and provide turn-by-turn directions to that centre. It also stores and tracks the basic health information of a user, and allows people to write reviews of centres they have visited. Users may choose to add health centres […]

Editor’s note – This is a guest article by a Nigerian based digital health entrepreneur. Guest contributions are welcome. Send to [email protected] After seeing so many on-demand healthcare startups trying to launch and take their own fair share of the Nigerian market, I thought I should put up this post as I felt something was […]

Startups often find themselves in a catch 22 situation. To gain investor capital, they need to show traction. To gain traction they need capital. To solve this, entrepreneurs are often told to go down the FFF route, friends, families or fools. Unfortunately, not many Nigerians have access to the FFF round that’s commonplace in other […]

What Would I Do Different If I Had To Build My Startup Again From Scratch? It’s been 4 years, 3 pivots, and thousands of dollars in founder’s capital invested. Somehow, I feel I’ve just graduated from business school. I actually consider it cheaper and more beneficial learning by being street-smart. I don’t think there’s any […]

Between the 30th of June and 2nd of July, medical doctors, software developers, graphic designers, business development guys and many others gathered at the Co-creation Hub in Yaba, Lagos for a hackathon called “Health Meets Tech” which was organized by a partnership of Digital Health Nigeria, EpiAfric and Facebook, and covered by the Nigeria Health […]

Editor’s note – This is an interview with a founder of a now failed health tech startup meditell, that was funded by a Lagos-based incubator. He gives plenty of insights and lessons to learn that is required reading for every health tech entrepreneur. It’s by far the best interview in our series so far. Some identifying […]

Editors’s Note: This is a recap of the recently held Health Meets Tech Hackathon put together by EpiAfric, Nigeria Halth Watch, CChub and ourselves at Digital Health Nigeria. Sponsored by Facebook. It is written by Ugonna Ofonagoro, Research Analyst at EpiAFRIC and first appeared on the Nigeria Health Watch website. The Nigerian healthcare system currently faces […]

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